Current Events > Kyrie Irving is SUSPENDED

(+) Yeah! (+)

For at least 5 games

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/0/6/AAaVCFAAD2Ky.jpg

Get fucked Nazi

Honestly, theres little hope that he will change because hes insulated by fame and money and surrounded by yes-people. There is no motivation to learn how to distinguish propaganda from facts. All thats left is for the world to decide how it should respond to him.

Kareem straight-up called him a lost cause. This shit is insane.

https://kareem.substack.com/p/shaq-kyrie-irving-idiot-has-twitter

Lots of people on the NBAB supports Kyrie. It's wild.

Of course, most sports fans are [redacted].

5 games seems weak but any punishment is good

Dumbest man in the NBA strikes again

This is what makes the NOI type of anti-Semitism so specifically pernicious -- because it's telling an audience of mostly black people that historical black subjugation (real) was not the fault of black people (true) but is the fault of Jewish people (not true)

And here's where the two thoughts (NOI-style anti-Semitism and the sociology of secret societies paper I linked earlier) come together: NOI style anti-Semitism isn't based on facts. It's based on a sense of grievance, that gets reinforced by a shared conspiracy community.

Like, when Kyrie keeps going on about "I know where I come from," that's not just citing an insane documentary, that's citing a NOI/BHI world view that makes him, and the people who believe it, feel important, offers both identity and a shared target

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This is a hard point to parse, but for some black people the story of black American history is a story of failure and loss and tragedy, and to have another story, one where actually you are mighty and special, but then you were robbed of your special powers, is very effective.

I mean, the ideology of Nation of Islam is that black people lived in a perfect paradise, and that the first god literally chose to arrive on earth as a black man, and then a (stay with me) child prodigy evil scientist called Yacub created white people, who overran the earth

I think it's "at least" 5 games. This seems to suggest he has to actually apologize for what he did which he has yet to do. Hopefully they hold strong on this and not cave if all their conditions are not met within that 5 game stretch.

This whole black Israelite stuff is so...sad. The tweet below is pretty much how I feel about it

The program(Anti-Defamation League) that Kyrie donated 500k to along with the Nets has rejected his donation LMAO.

https://twitter.com/IanBegley/status/1588333293342437376?s=20&t=UfF3AxauPx2BVnzmDmg8CQ

Lots of people on the NBAB supports Kyrie. It's wild.

Kareem is just the coolest dude

kareem is an old tap dancing slave to respectability politics.

wat

Its a pretty common take.

most of Kareems criticism on black men, doesnt just critique the person and their flaws, he says their mistakes bring down black people as a whole.

modern Kareem is a huge believers in respectability, the ideas that Black people have to be great in public. Otherwise, your behavior brings out the entire culture.

the idea is that if were always outstanding people, racism will stop.

in reality what happens is people use that person as a racist tool against other people.

ah, i didnt know about the concept, thanks for explaining.

The concept is really it is why Booker T. Washington complained about WEB Du Bois. It is why so many black boxers had to be perfect after Johnson. It is way Larry Dobby and Jackie Roberson broke the color line and not others who where better but had attitudes that would let them take all that bullshit. It is today a black man doing something as harmless as taking a knee is seen as just the worst. It is way a black child and be hunted in Florida and people think he must have started a fight because he got in trouble at school once